Octoparse alternative for web scraping?

ScrapingBee is a better alternative to Octoparse. If your current scraping solution feels limited or overpriced, it might be time for a change.

based on 100+ reviews.

ScrapingBee clear documentation, easy-to-use API, and great success rate made it a no-brainer. Dominic Phillips Co-Founder @ CodeSubmit

Outgrown point-and-click tools? You're not alone.

Visual scrapers like Octoparse are great for beginners—but quickly become painful to scale. If you're tired of GUIs, ScrapingBee gives you API-first power and flexibility.

Scrape at scale, without bottlenecks

Handle JavaScript, rotate proxies, avoid CAPTCHAs—all with one API endpoint.

No gimmicks, no tiers

Whether you're on day one or scraping at enterprise scale, you'll get access to the full toolkit—no locked features, no hidden costs.

ScrapingBee

Octoparse

Requests for $99/mo

1,000,000

~500,000

AI-Powered Natural-Language Extraction

Built-in Table-to-JSON Parsing

Declarative JavaScript Scenario Execution

Integrated Screenshot Capture

Dedicated Google SERP API

Native Proxy Rotation

Lightweight & Dev-Friendly

Works at Scale (Stateless)

Built for scale, not drag-and-drop GUIs.

Octoparse is fine for small jobs—but scaling scraping through a point-and-click interface gets frustrating fast. With our developer-first API, you can scale confidently with just code.

REST API

No bots to babysit or workflows to tweak—just send a URL, and we deliver the content, no matter how complex the page.

Proxy mode, just in case

For users needing proxy integration, our proxy mode lets you route traffic your way, while still benefiting from our infrastructure.

We use ScrapingBee to extract real-estate listings from dozens of websites. ScrapingBee API helped us focus on our core-business instead of managing headless browsers by ourselves. Maxime Le Segretain Co-Founder @ Hello DingDong